It's bonkers stuff, just the Xena/Hercules crew running wild with a mid-season replacement. The show ended with a frustrating cliffhanger, and just as the arc-plot was starting to come together. As eye candy it can't be beat, featuring one of the most spectacularly attractive casts ever.

I would not put Misfits of Science on this list. It had a sense of humor about its premise that I wish more genre shows had.

If I'm going to put something on this list, it would be something like Cold Case. Super serious, overly melodramatic, and hitting viewers over the head until they get the "message" of an episode. One of the few highlights of MAD TV's later seasons was their parody of the series, and it summed up everything I disliked about the show.

Here's one that I remember really sucking: REGGIE. This was the show that Richard Mulligan starred in after SOAP went off the air. It was horrible. Years later, I discovered the BBC series THE FALL AND RISE OF REGINALD PERRIN, the original show that REGGIE copied. It was brilliant, and it's one of my favorite comedies of all time.

I used to love watching shows that very obviously were going to be cancelled quickly. Like, you could tell the show's creators were just lucky to be there, that they somehow created a sellable pilot, and no idea how to advance it beyond that point. Usually these shows are picked not because they're good, but because they're incredibly compatible with another show. And sometimes, if a network commits to one awful series because they think it will somehow sell, they HAVE to find a weak-sister to match it with.

So in 2006 I was tickled to see the first episode of the EXTREMELY skimpy Fox sitcom "Happy Hour." The premise of the show was that this mild-mannered city guy was getting over a bad break-up and moving on with his life thanks to the support from his wacky friends. The HOOK of the show, however, was that these characters would get together in his spacious apartment every day and have their own casual happy hour, sipping champagne and hanging out. THAT'S IT.

I remember watching the first episode, and they got to the tiny, low-key happy hour at the twenty minute mark (where the Paul F. Thompkins-like lead sips champagne while wearing a too-tight dinner jacket), and realized it was the saddest plot device on which to hang an entire series. It was almost Dadaist.

The show was promptly canceled -- Wikipedia says four episodes aired, but I remember the program going on hiatus after that first week. Ironically, I also remember its timeslot partner, another new show that, evidently, Fox was much more intrigued by. That would be the the beginning of an 81 episode run for "Til Death."

I also saw the only two aired episodes of the immortal "Secret Diary Of Desmond Pfieffer." Beat that.

I can't beat that, but I went in with the same attitude and watched every episode of Cavemen that aired. I'm still not sure if the week it was cancelled I was relieved or bummed out. I read on AV Club that the entire season is on YouTube, including all the unaired episodes, and that, according to them, it actually gets better as it progresses, starting right when it got cancelled. I don't think I have it in me to go back and see for myself, though.

If I'm going to put something on this list, it would be something like Cold Case. Super serious, overly melodramatic, and hitting viewers over the head until they get the "message" of an episode. One of the few highlights of MAD TV's later seasons was their parody of the series, and it summed up everything I disliked about the show.

Damm! I've seen a few episodes of Cold Case and this Parody is dead on accurate.

I also saw the only two aired episodes of the immortal "Secret Diary Of Desmond Pfieffer." Beat that.

Homeboys in Outer Space seemed to run a whole year - however long it ran it felt much longer. Flex was dope though. It's a testament to the WB and UPN that I can't tell you which awful network these shows aired on. If you held a gun to my head I'd say UPN. I didn't have cable in college - I also watched tons of Nascar and Letterman as "background noise" while I studied.

If I'm going to put something on this list, it would be something like Cold Case. Super serious, overly melodramatic, and hitting viewers over the head until they get the "message" of an episode. One of the few highlights of MAD TV's later seasons was their parody of the series, and it summed up everything I disliked about the show.

MAD TV gets no love, but it could hit it out of the park once in a while. It also gave the world Phil Lamarr AND Key & Peele, as witnessed by that last sketch.

Did any of you USians get the syndicated RoboCop series, or did that just air in Canada? I was weirdly obsessed with it as a teenager, despite being exactly what you'd expect a syndicated RoboCop series that aired Saturday afternoons to be like. I actually can't flatly say that it was BAD because I barely remember it, except that there was a holographic computer lady and the guy who was melted by toxic waste in the first movie came back as Robo's ongoing, Lex Luthor-esque nemesis.